[cripplecreek]

Texas has been on fire for about 4 months.

Well that's interesting.

[JRandomFreeper]

The big fires have been Biblical for the last 4 months. We've been in drought for a couple of years. We always have wild-fires somewhere, hell, we're as big as France, but smell better.

I've seen the mercury hit 115 here recently, and my back yard looks like a nuke hit nearby. And still no rain.

At the visitation before my Mom's funeral tonight, folks were praising the Lord that we've had a cold front and it will be in the mid 80s this week.

/johnny

[lentulusgracchus]

Texas has been on fire for about 4 months.

Well that's interesting.

Not-very-wet winter, quite dry spring. Lots of fires. Fire warnings flying for months in some counties. Then a big wind gets power lines arcing and dropping sparks into the grass, or (as someone noticed the other day) Bozo hooks up a hot smoker, smoking furiously away, to drag over to his brother-in-law's house, and drops ash from his cleanout door on the side of the road, mile after mile. Guy like that should be good for three or four roadside fires under circumstances like these.

The average daily high temperature in Houston for the month of August, according to Reliant Power Company, was 101^o F. The average, not "we hit it every other day, or two days out of three".